View of Pershing Square from the Pershing Square Building, showing a street on the left, 1930

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Title	View of Pershing Square from the Pershing Square Building, showing a street on the left, 1930
Description	Photograph of a view of Pershing Square from the Pershing Square Building, showing a street on the left, 1930. A long street with automobiles driving down its center and others parked along its sidewalks extends from the left foreground to the left distance. Various trees shade the grass of Pershing Square at center as a flag pole stands above it. The Paramount Building stands with its label printed beneath a water tower stands on the left with a larger building behind it. State Life of Indiana stands at the beginning of a long line of buildings behind Pershing Square while more giant buildings including the Knickerbocker Building stand across the street on the right side of the park.
Subject	Biltmore Hotel; Pershing Square Building
Subject (adlf)	buildings
Subject (lcsh)	Parks Hotels, taverns, etc.
Geographic subject (roadway)	5th Street and Olive Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1930
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1930
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm.
Format (aat)	transparencies photographs
Accession number	48141
Call number	CHS-48141
Legacy record ID	chs-m23679
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-48141
Archival file	chs_Volume133/CHS-48141.tiff

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